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02nz
02nz (@guest_607505)
June 20, 2018 14:40

There are lots of complaints in the reviews on the Hotels.com gift cards, but I’ve never had a problem. Tips:

– You can use them for all prepaid hotel reservations (whether nonrefundable or changeable) but not for bookings where payment is made directly at the hotel. The vast majority of the hotels on the site can be booked as prepaid, but there are some exceptions especially overseas.

– You can only apply one gift card per booking but can combine Hotels.com gift card balances on their site – https://www.hotels.com/hotel-deals/gcbalance/ and click “balance transfer.”

– If you cancel a booking, the portion paid by GC is issued as a new GC, usually within an hour or so.

– You do earn Hotels.com rewards the same as if you were paying by credit card.

Aaron
Aaron (@guest_607675)
June 20, 2018 23:46

Thank you! This is super helpful.

hi
hi (@guest_607496)
June 20, 2018 14:13

can you stock giftcards and still get tenth night free or a coupon applied?

William Charles
Admin
June 20, 2018 15:27
  hi

Yes to tenth night free and coupon, usually you can’t stack coupon and tenth night free though.

Aaron
Aaron (@guest_607366)
June 20, 2018 10:52

This is the third or fourth deal on Hotels.com gift cards this week. How is Hotels.com as a service? Do people ever have problems with them or are they pretty top-notch?

I’ve just started looking for as many hotel discounts as I can get, so I haven’t really been paying attention before and I’m wondering if there’s any reason to be wary of buying lots of their gift cards.

William Charles
Admin
June 20, 2018 12:13

It’s basically just a reskinned expedia, I’ve never had any issues really

Aaron
Aaron (@guest_607481)
June 20, 2018 13:36

Thanks! That’s helpful.

Dan
Dan (@guest_607497)
June 20, 2018 14:14

Does using DoC’s affiliate link, actually get DoC a commission from gift card sales from ebay/Amazon? Nearly all traditional shopping portals don’t allow cashback on GCs, so I was just curious if you guys get paid out. I always make every effort to do so regardless, just curious.

Ken
Ken (@guest_607522)
June 20, 2018 15:10

Curious about this too. I usually go through Amazon Smile so not sure if that also affects the commission.

William Charles
Admin
June 20, 2018 15:24
Ken
Ken (@guest_607536)
June 20, 2018 15:32

Excellent, can benefit two great causes simultaneously!

William Charles
Admin
June 20, 2018 15:32

Thanks 😀

William Charles
Admin
June 20, 2018 15:24

eBay no. Amazon gives us commission on third party cards, but not Amazon cards.

jed
jed (@guest_607333)
June 20, 2018 09:44

Just bought it, thanks!